Robert “the Expert” Quesal joins Peter Reitzes to discuss stuttering in the media. They discuss the use of stuttering on the situational comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Season 9, Episode 7). Then they discuss a story out of the United Kingdom (see video below) regarding a 16-year-old high school student, Musharaf “Mushy” Asghar , who is fearful of taking his oral exams. One of Mr. Asghar’s teachers, influenced by the film The King’s Speech, has Mushy practice speaking while wearing headphones and listening to music.
ROBERT QUESAL, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is a professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western Illinois University, a person who stutters, a board recognized fluency specialist and a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Robert “the Expert” Quesal joins Peter Reitzes to discuss the stuttering “Drill Sergeant” skit (below) that recently aired on Saturday Night Live. The skit featured Seth MacFarlane who played a drill instructor who stutters.
We discuss the positive and negative reactions by the stuttering community and this press release on the skit published by the Stuttering Foundation.
ROBERT QUESAL, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is a professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western Illinois University, a person who stutters, a board recognized fluency specialist and a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Most of Bob’s StutterTalk appearances are archived here.
Robert Quesal joins Peter Reitzes to discuss analogies used to describe stuttering and stuttering treatment.
Today Bob and Peter discuss analogies that people use to describe the nature and treatment of stuttering. In many cases, we have no way of knowing the exact origin of each analogy discussed because many are widely used and often similar in meaning. Bob and Peter begin by discussing the famous stuttering iceberg analogyand proceed to discuss many, many more analogies listed below.
ROBERT W. QUESAL, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is a professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western Illinois University, a person who stutters, a board recognized fluency specialist and a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Bob is also a much valued member of the StutterTalk advisory Council.
Listed below are links to articles, books or web pages which discuss some of the analogies mentioned in today’s episode. Please note that StutterTalk is not making a determination of where each analogy originated – we are simply providing some links to read about the analogies.
Lisette Wesseling – the chocolate teapot and strict fluency shaping analogy
Mark Bulger – the man with a switch and stuttering analogy
Simon Richardson – “luency is as slippery as a dog in wet tile”
Ari Gershonovitch – stuttering and the broken transmission analogy
Steve Marchant – stuttering and the tangled extension cord
Elliot Olds – the “chinese finger trap, walking across a beam high above the ground (when it’d be trivial to walk across the same beam if it were on the ground), floating in the water on your back (once you start thinking you’re sinking, you start thrashing around which keeps you from floating)”
Voon Pang’s student – slowing down and the band aid analogy
Ruth Mead – stuttering, speech and the windmill analogy
We also discussed:
stuttering and taking an inventory in a burning house analogy (Quesal)
stuttering and being poked while writing analogy (Yaruss)
choosing a stuttering treatment similar to choosing a Mexican restaurant (Reitzes)
stuttering being like an onion (sent to StutterTalk by Rozie Matthews)
Robert Quesal joins Peter Reitzes for this Tips from the Pros edition on freezing and stuttering.
Tips from the Pros is not speech therapy, is not instruction and is not coaching. General comments about stuttering may not apply to any particular person who stutters. If you are looking for a professional to help you work on stuttering, two well respected referral lists are:
ROBERT W. QUESAL, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is a professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western Illinois University, a person who stutters, a board recognized fluency specialist and a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Bob is also a much valued member of the StutterTalk advisory Council.
Robert Quesal joins Peter Reitzes to discuss accommodating college students.
ROBERT W. QUESAL, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is a professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western Illinois University, a person who stutters, a board recognized fluency specialist and a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Bob is also a much valued member of the StutterTalk advisory Council.
Robert Quesal joins Peter Reitzes to discuss general tips for thinking about stuttering during the Thanksgiving holiday. Tips include talking openly about stuttering with family and friends, putting the listener at ease, sharing recent stuttering experiences, facing family dynamics, not beating yourself up, voluntary stuttering and much more.
Tips from the Pros is a new StutterTalk series. These will be short episodes focused on sharing stuttering tips that have helped many. Tips from the Pros is not speech therapy, is not instruction and is not coaching. General comments about stuttering may not apply to any particular person who stutters. If you are looking for a professional to help you work on stuttering, two well respected referral lists are:
StutterTalk® is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to talking openly about stuttering. StutterTalk is the first and longest running podcast on stuttering. Since 2007 we have published more than 700 podcasts which are heard in 180 countries.
27 Oct 2013
It’s Always Sunny on StutterTalk: Stuttering in the Media (Ep. 426)
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Robert “the Expert” Quesal joins Peter Reitzes to discuss stuttering in the media. They discuss the use of stuttering on the situational comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Season 9, Episode 7). Then they discuss a story out of the United Kingdom (see video below) regarding a 16-year-old high school student, Musharaf “Mushy” Asghar , who is fearful of taking his oral exams. One of Mr. Asghar’s teachers, influenced by the film The King’s Speech, has Mushy practice speaking while wearing headphones and listening to music.
ROBERT QUESAL, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is a professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western Illinois University, a person who stutters, a board recognized fluency specialist and a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
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